Most need about 32 gigs of data as that is what they have on their phones which have replaced the computer. Of course Windows SXS likes 70 gigs for.dll files.
A 240 gig SSD is plenty and they are getting cheaper and chaper and faster and faster rapidly fast. At the end of the year at this rate we will see 1 TB ssds in the $300 range!
For a server yes they are worth the money and themselves in raid and the cost is neglibable compared to the I/o improvement.
Enterprise SSD's are here. Just a few years ago yes a mechanical disk was faster than an SSD for sequential writes and reads for most work and hell of a lot more reliable than an ssd. But that is not true anymore. Newer drives have 5 year warranties and up to 80 gig endurance a day for 5 years now!
Performance wise the newer Sans disk and Samsungs get up to +500 megs a second per drive! FYI a 4 raid with mechanical drives gets just 120 megs a second. A raid +5 can reach close to 2 TB a dang second. Plus vastly superior IOS. The new SSDs have raid inside the disks internally which is how they are getting faster and faster with each revision between the ram chips.
So it makes no sense to invest in mechanical disks. It is like saying inventing better vacuum tubes or punch card reading technology.
Yes a few slashdotters who have not switched to SSD yet modded you insightful but I see it dying in the decade as OEM's start using it.
Can you honestly say it is not because Windows mobile will finally be put on a tablet with a great market presence? The surface pro is full Windows 8 and too expensive for consumers. The other surface is not popular and is returned when joe six pack can not run his software on it if it is purchased.
Type 1 hypervisors run fine with performance. In type 2 hypervisors with mechanical disks on top of a host OS which is what virtualbox and VMware Workstation use is a different story. IOPS on a ssd far out exceed a traditional disk and even a raid 5 array! I have benchmarks on my system to prove it on a sans disk that is not even the top end model. I get 300 megs a second copying files.
So a tablet with this not running 2 oses on an ssd with a type 1 is doable. After all servers run like this all the time.
They are just like Apple and now Google and every other company in existence.
They are all equal and will be assholes as soon as they have marketshare. It comes to show you that only competition frees. Even in opensource it is not good to have 1 player set standards which is evident in Xorg and the traction to stop Wayland just as an example.
So those who bash I WONT TOUCH IT BECAUSE IT IS FROM MICROSOFT!! Need to realize Android is not a savior either as Google is now being cocky since they have major marketshare.
If the situation were in reverse and Windows Mobile had 80% of the market you could bet Google would be in favor of dual boot and of course MS would fight it etc.
I built a brand new core2duo in October of 2006 with XP. Recalling from memory it had 1 gig of ram,(maybe 2 ??) NVidia GTX 7600, its hard disk size I do not remember as this pc did not last long. My wife at the time was not happy at the price tag which was $1300 after everything (I already had a monitor) CRT style. Very good gaming PC. Not freaking awesome like yours, but hey it can run WOW, battlefield 2, and other mid 2000's decade titles very well.
I also bought a laptop for school early that summer in 2006 which was a full Pentium M 1.5 ghz, 512 megs of ram (later upgraded to 1 gig), and a 80 gig hd. That was $800. Probably closer to $950 after I put an additional 512. This was mainstream priced computer and specs in the time of Vista.
Neither touched Vista for good reason.
Remember that Joe six pack looks at price tags. If it is over $800 he wont buy it etc. Maybe $1200 for a Joe six pack who works in a cushion office job where he has money and needs extra software.
So it is not unreasonable to bash MS, not the OEM's on this. You could not get a reliable cheap PC for the price point the market could bare to run Vista until about 2009.
My old core2duo would run Windows 7 fine. However if it had just 1 gig of ram it would have trouble actually running software after the boot. The board was plagued with bursting capacitors sigh.
OMG. Dude that is horrible back in 2006 era requirements. You are looking at it with 2014 colored glasses.
Keep in mind most computers which were new at the store (not even mentioning existing ones!)only had between 512 - 1 gig in late 2006! A few workstations had 2 gigs of ram as high end gaming or video editing systems. Core2Duo's were brand new and expensive with no mobile versions yet. Pentium M's and Pentium IV's were still being sold as core2duo's were the luxury items for power users. To have that just to boot the OS is insanely bad.
Most people had ATI rage pros and integrated Intel 8xxx graphics chips soldered on the boards that could not even handle 480p flash video accelerated (XP was not even). Try running Netflix from a regular computer from that era?
Existing users with relatively new computers that were only 2 - 3 years old from the 2003 era where Pentium IV's with 256 - 512 megs of ram. Or were Pentium Mobiles that were 1 ghz.
Vista sucked and your post proves it. Windows 7 can run (not great) with a core2duo with 1 gig of ram and ok with 2 gigs if you want to do things like run applications and not just boot it.
Vista indexing just blew and it barely ran on my dual core 2 gig notebook purchased a year after Vista came out. Windows 7 was a world of difference on it!
Vista really did wreck. Even with 2 gigs of ram it was sluggish without a million updates and at least SP 1 and even then had its senior moments.
No it isn't. The issue is that us geeks do real work and have things called 'files' on the computer.
I'm sure Windows 8 is fine for using Facebook and playing online games.
Could, in a rhetorical question work in an environment that is more polished where applets, touch, as well as opening files work in a GUI? Windows 8 was not the best and implementation could have been very different. However I can open files just fine on a VM running 8.
For the record I use Windows 7 and CentOS with gnome 2. I am not ready for this change either, but I am open after seeing this. These kids are starting to enter the workforce and in a few short years start to influence purchasing decisions at our employers. I have a feeling it will come whether we like it or not.
Here is what is nice about a tiny netbook and tablet with touch. PORTABILITY. It is like a cell phone but bigger and can do real work. Windows 7 and Gnome 2 are nice if you have lots of regular apps (not applets) with a dock/taskbar in a system of organization to launch things right?
Starting with win 7 I just type what I want and rarely use anything on the start menu. I occasionally do when I need a component or something. I use jumplists. If Metro apps can function on a taskbar and I could have a start menu with a mouse, but a start screen when I detach the keyboard I can live with that actually. My brain would resist the new look and difference and I would need to remind it of the benefits. Something a child does not have to worry about as they have more agile minds.
Windows 7 would be terrible and so would a heavy bulky laptop for her.
So as CPU's and GPU's get faster and SSD's are rapidly getting faster, more reliable, and cheaper we will see the power to multitask more in tinier packages. I think Windows 8 needs MASSIVE IMPROVEMENTS but it is an early look at the future. Apps are nice too in that you do not need +30 tabs opened in a browser when an app can do the same thing. They remind of the pc era in the early days of shareware where people installed applications for everything. Remember those?
A new sleek UI that still has features and is better implemented is doable and does have features for professionals too if done right if you get rid of the eww change. Many still can't handle the change away from office 2003 and are clinging to it for life.
Imagine going on a business trip where you carry a thin 13 inch hybrid in your carryon instead of a bulky laptop bag. It easily fits in your tray on the airplane, has +8 hours of battery life, and when you arrive in the rent a car GPS and maps navigator pop up with weather reports, etc. It has a taskbar and can run Office. It can do be doable and perhaps nicer than Windows 7 if done right.
We tend to base our reality on those around us and as humans we associate in groups who share similiar beliefs (slashdot.org pro linux anti MS, geek stuff, etc) which alter our viewpoints. It doesn't mean that those who disagree do not exist.
When making Planet of the Apes those in the gorrilas, chimpanzees, and others ended sitting in groups during lunch. They were not told too. Human psychology with group idenitty played into this at a subconcious level. I find it very interesting.... back to the viewpoint I am not a Metro Tile Lover AT ALL. Many on www.neowin.net love Metro and it is similiar to slashdot but is very pro MS. There is a strong 1/3 minority who hate Metro there too like slashdot but love other MS stuff give or take and fights in comment sections between the 2 groups pop up.
I agree the Windows 7 desktop and Gnome 2 are better for me and those who do real work with lots of apps everywhere. Not applets. However, the younger crowd is used to cell phones during brain development so using an app and having 1 or two applets at a time feels comfortable.
I also agree Windows 8 IS A DISASTER. It is not that Modern/Metro is bad to me. It was not implemented correctly and rushed to beat Apple. But that doesn't mean we should not welcome changes like booting to desktop back or hate all applets on the desktop if the desktop is actually returned and no closed door syndrome shit. After all we own Androids and iPhones and do not freak out each time we use them right?
The younger crowd likes portability and touch. My example of my niece is that. She had 0 problems and has used XP on her parents computer before. She was happy got Metro and her brain was able to learn and even feel comfortable with it immediately. This generation are now just entering the workforce while the baby boomers are out or will be in the next 10 years. We will go in upper management or start companies or just mingle with this new group but they will be buying computers and influence corporate decision making more and more.
Yes the rumors about mouse-first, voice-first, and touch-first were from neowin.net. Microsoft employees mentioned this. In 1 month we shall see at the BUILD conference if this is true. I use that site as well. Been accused of being a shill for Linux on that:-)
I get flamed on both sides but I do not like being closed mined and missing something. I was one of those who brushed off the web and refused to learn development on it as HTML was just that. It wasn't real programming etc. I regret that choice.
While I am keeping Windows 7 and CentOS for now and ignore ubuntu and Windows 8 it does not mean I am set and will turn into an XP luddite and not update for 12 years and then go in a rampant rage when forced too. Windows 9 and Linux mint maybe on my next computer in about a year to a year and a half from now.
I have extended family members. One daughter got a new Windows 8 tablet/ultrabook Lenovo hybrids for Christmas and loves it. She brings it out in the island in the kitchen to browse facebook, do homework with MS Word, etc. Her mom grabbed it for recipes, they used it for skype more relatives, her brother kept fighting to use it for things.
I mentioned how HORRIBLE ITS UI was and offered to put Windows 7 on. They looked at me like EWW that GUI is for old people that doesn't run applets.
Like the EEE it is super portable.
The issue us geeks need to use muscle memory to relearn something and we used to laugh at those who could not adopt to change. Now the joke is on us.
The millennials like their apps, tiny sizes, portability, long battery life, etc.
Windows 9 will be a refined balanced UI. Tile applets on a Windows 7 desktop if you plug in the keyboard and mouse (mouse-first UI) if rumors are true. MS nees an answer to iOS and Android with battery life, smooth graphics acceleration, and applets. It is NOT GOING AWAY.
Supposedly it boots directly to the desktop if you have a keyboard and mouse plugged in and it adds features from Windows 7 back like power buttons, jumplists, and even tile resizing.
But since I never jumped on the bandwaggon I suppose I do not care one bit. If I was forced with a laptop with Windows 8 only drivers then I would and would love this if I were stuck with Windows.
Newer Atoms and other cheap notebooks are not Windows 7 compatible and you would think they would be!!
Some string theorists claim that when a string bends in the 4th dimension it creates the effects of dark matter.
Not to sound like an idiot because I have no physics degree, but if it exists everywhere why isn't it on Earth or anywhere else? Surely in the last billion years since our solar system revolved around the galaxy once we would at least encounter some of it?
Most republicans favor $8.00 a gallon gas as anything less if we didn't export to people paying that would be evil socialism! We can't have that now can we as that would interfere with the free market.
That is why it is here. Think our gas would say $3.50 a gallon when they can sell it for double in China?
Let's keep all this oil here and try to bring the freakin' price of gas back down to what it was pre-Katrina at least.
But I'm guessing the tree huggers behind the Obama admin, won't want to lower prices back. I think they want to keep them high to try to kill off cars in the US.
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l... yes the political rant on the end was a little much. But I am shocked the slashotters have not mentioned why there is a ban in the first place
The ban was created to lower gas prices from the 1970s oil crises. Oil goes for $7 - $9 a gallon in China and in Europe. I guess gas companies still are not making enough money from $1.24 a gallon a decade ago to $3.50 today.
If you want to see gas prices go to $7.00 a gallon exporting will cause it. Why would Shell or BP want to sell gas to Canadians and Americans for $3.50/gallon when they can sell it in China for $8.00/gallon?
>> it will focus on giving developers "close-to-metal" GPU resource access and reducing CPU overhead.
Translation:...its finally been gutted of a lot of heavy Microsoft crapware and is now just a thin wrapper over the GPU vendor's own driver.
I wish the rest of Windows would go that way too.
Much of the speed of Mantle over OpenGL and DirectX have to do with the CPU processing draws to the screen. If you have an older Phemon II but with a decent card (my own system) doing this in GPU benefits. DirectX 12 will look at cpu vs gpu functions and execute on either depending on which is faster.
Basically it is a bottleneck as the GPU sits there waiting for the cpu in many games and if hardware in the GPU can do these things it takes the load off the CPU so the GPU can thread efficiently. In other words it is like blocking threads for regular systems programmers.
The reason DirectX 10/11 was not backported to XP was not because of mean old bad microsoft but rather WinXP is such an obsolete archaic OS that is fundamentally different.
The driver model of NT (pre Vista) does not include WDDM (Windows Device Display Manager) which includes composition and GPU based threading and schedule control etc. One of the strongest reasons to ditch Xorg in the Unix world is because of features like this that Wayland promises to integrate because it is fundamentally different.
Also explains why XP is stuck at IE 8 due to no hardware acceleration... in addition to no kernel level sandboxing either for security.
Microsoft can't play the old 1990's game where we buy which ever version and hang out at CompUSA at 12am to get it anymore. MS found out the shocking way developers resistant to technology in IE 6 last decade. MBA's look at marketshare now so if I were a betting man my guess would be DirectX 12 will be ported. If not then it will be suicide as XBoxONE won't use it and developers want to target both for maximum profit generation which is why DirectX 9 stayed for so long too.
Windows 9 will be very similar to Windows 7 as there is no reason for radical changes other than perhaps power management. It wont be that much of hassle as MS easily backported many IE 10/11 features to Windows 7 in just a month or two after the Windows 8 releases. Windows 7 at least has a WDDM unlike XP.
I will refuse to work with one who doesn't. I do not want my ass in a corporate lawsuit when data gets breached on public record when HR does a background thank you very much!
Hospitals yes they have to use XP. It is cheaper to pay the $250,000 a year plus client contracts than to pay the FDA $5,000,000 to recertify all their apps, MRIs, equipment, computers, and updated programs again for something that still works fine. They will keep using XP for another decade at least.
But with HIPPA they are required by law to be supported and secured so yes they have a contract.
They have contracts for extended support and kiosks and POS use XP embedded and are not connected to the internet. Any IT department who still has XP on is incompetent at this stage.
In all fairness it is private but open to the public like a McDonalds. Yes someone has every right to take back something that doesn't belong to you. If you owe money the car is not YOURS.
They check the VIN number before towing due to lawsuits and the bank checks the license plates during processing work when they register the licensing fees back to them or the used car dealership it ends up on.
It sounds evil and messed up and scary if you are in a bad situation with someone trying to take what you think is yours and a tool to get a job. But sadly if repos didn't happen you wouldn't be able to use your car you have now. You would be driving a used beater for a much more expensive price as it would be cash only.
Yes a joke made off those who saw Windows 7 aero and thought VISTA and clinged to XP for life!... compounded by those who say it really is just Vista etc.
I can tell you from my obsolete laptop with 2 gigs of ram and a 4500 rpm hd that there is a WORLD of difference between Vista and 7. It is a 1.7 ghz dual core AMD turion. Vista will just peg the hell out of the disk for many minutes on end. The waiting circle will pop up and the gui becomes unresponsive when processing something, in Windows 7 the graphics WDDM is multithreaded so the I have the cursor back when it is doing something. Network shares randomly vanish under Vista which is still not fixed. Network and HD access is still slower. Instant search indexing doesn't re-index constantly under 7.
These and higher ram requirements are the issues on this older system off the back of my head. I am sure on core2extreme or an icore5 with 4 gigs of ram it could be tolerated in a non corporate environment without network shares. Windows 7 has finer touches and responsiveness and less bugs. It is more pronounced on 2 gigs of ram and lower end machines with the impact.
Many such machines as yours made in 2005 to 2006 have XP.
Those compared to the older 2.0 ghz 512 megs of ram Pentium IV's are much quicker and will last several years longer than its older cousins.
It is pegged at 30% because of overheating protection. Replace the fan and the problem will go away. You are slowly ruining your electronics if they get that hot and it will eventually die
I got news for you, computers depreciate faster than cars. One can buy a good used computer with Win7 or Win8 on it for $300 or less.
BTW, the average er capita income in American is about $50,000.00 per year. That is quite a bit more than $10/hr(21,800/yr). So, the group you listed is not the average either.
Average != median. There is tremendous income inequality in America. IN statistics Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Koch Brothers, etc would be considered outlines. I do not want this thread to become political as that is not my point. I would like to point out for ever millionaire there are many many more who do make $10/hr waiting tables, interning, stocking shelves at Walmart, etc. Infact they make up to 25% of all income earners from what I read and 50% of all new jobs created! Low wage jobs are growing.
My point is for the bottom 25% that is a sad reality and since XP users make up 15 to 20% of users in the USA according to statistics it makes perfect sense. $300 is A TON OF MONEY for these guys and means no food and no rent out on the street.
Be thankful for what you have. I used to make a lot more in the good days and as late as last year in the great recession accepted a job for $13/hr and moved back in with my parents. A gap on a resume is a career suicide and was forced to take it:-(
Recovering now slowly but when you have asshole HR who ignores skillsets and focuses on employment gaps and job titles for x amounts of time you have people's value go down really fast and unemployable comes next. Many become the new Walmart stockers.
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Does the average user need 3TB?
Most need about 32 gigs of data as that is what they have on their phones which have replaced the computer. Of course Windows SXS likes 70 gigs for .dll files.
A 240 gig SSD is plenty and they are getting cheaper and chaper and faster and faster rapidly fast. At the end of the year at this rate we will see 1 TB ssds in the $300 range!
For a server yes they are worth the money and themselves in raid and the cost is neglibable compared to the I/o improvement.
Yes they are going away.
Enterprise SSD's are here. Just a few years ago yes a mechanical disk was faster than an SSD for sequential writes and reads for most work and hell of a lot more reliable than an ssd. But that is not true anymore. Newer drives have 5 year warranties and up to 80 gig endurance a day for 5 years now!
Performance wise the newer Sans disk and Samsungs get up to +500 megs a second per drive! FYI a 4 raid with mechanical drives gets just 120 megs a second. A raid +5 can reach close to 2 TB a dang second. Plus vastly superior IOS. The new SSDs have raid inside the disks internally which is how they are getting faster and faster with each revision between the ram chips.
So it makes no sense to invest in mechanical disks. It is like saying inventing better vacuum tubes or punch card reading technology.
Yes a few slashdotters who have not switched to SSD yet modded you insightful but I see it dying in the decade as OEM's start using it.
Oh please.
Can you honestly say it is not because Windows mobile will finally be put on a tablet with a great market presence? The surface pro is full Windows 8 and too expensive for consumers. The other surface is not popular and is returned when joe six pack can not run his software on it if it is purchased.
Type 1 hypervisors run fine with performance. In type 2 hypervisors with mechanical disks on top of a host OS which is what virtualbox and VMware Workstation use is a different story. IOPS on a ssd far out exceed a traditional disk and even a raid 5 array! I have benchmarks on my system to prove it on a sans disk that is not even the top end model. I get 300 megs a second copying files.
So a tablet with this not running 2 oses on an ssd with a type 1 is doable. After all servers run like this all the time.
They are just like Apple and now Google and every other company in existence.
They are all equal and will be assholes as soon as they have marketshare. It comes to show you that only competition frees. Even in opensource it is not good to have 1 player set standards which is evident in Xorg and the traction to stop Wayland just as an example.
So those who bash I WONT TOUCH IT BECAUSE IT IS FROM MICROSOFT!! Need to realize Android is not a savior either as Google is now being cocky since they have major marketshare.
If the situation were in reverse and Windows Mobile had 80% of the market you could bet Google would be in favor of dual boot and of course MS would fight it etc.
I built a brand new core2duo in October of 2006 with XP. Recalling from memory it had 1 gig of ram,(maybe 2 ??) NVidia GTX 7600, its hard disk size I do not remember as this pc did not last long. My wife at the time was not happy at the price tag which was $1300 after everything (I already had a monitor) CRT style. Very good gaming PC. Not freaking awesome like yours, but hey it can run WOW, battlefield 2, and other mid 2000's decade titles very well.
I also bought a laptop for school early that summer in 2006 which was a full Pentium M 1.5 ghz, 512 megs of ram (later upgraded to 1 gig), and a 80 gig hd. That was $800. Probably closer to $950 after I put an additional 512. This was mainstream priced computer and specs in the time of Vista.
Neither touched Vista for good reason.
Remember that Joe six pack looks at price tags. If it is over $800 he wont buy it etc. Maybe $1200 for a Joe six pack who works in a cushion office job where he has money and needs extra software.
So it is not unreasonable to bash MS, not the OEM's on this. You could not get a reliable cheap PC for the price point the market could bare to run Vista until about 2009.
My old core2duo would run Windows 7 fine. However if it had just 1 gig of ram it would have trouble actually running software after the boot. The board was plagued with bursting capacitors sigh.
OMG. Dude that is horrible back in 2006 era requirements. You are looking at it with 2014 colored glasses.
Keep in mind most computers which were new at the store (not even mentioning existing ones!)only had between 512 - 1 gig in late 2006! A few workstations had 2 gigs of ram as high end gaming or video editing systems. Core2Duo's were brand new and expensive with no mobile versions yet. Pentium M's and Pentium IV's were still being sold as core2duo's were the luxury items for power users. To have that just to boot the OS is insanely bad.
Most people had ATI rage pros and integrated Intel 8xxx graphics chips soldered on the boards that could not even handle 480p flash video accelerated (XP was not even). Try running Netflix from a regular computer from that era?
Existing users with relatively new computers that were only 2 - 3 years old from the 2003 era where Pentium IV's with 256 - 512 megs of ram. Or were Pentium Mobiles that were 1 ghz.
Vista sucked and your post proves it. Windows 7 can run (not great) with a core2duo with 1 gig of ram and ok with 2 gigs if you want to do things like run applications and not just boot it.
Vista indexing just blew and it barely ran on my dual core 2 gig notebook purchased a year after Vista came out. Windows 7 was a world of difference on it!
Vista really did wreck. Even with 2 gigs of ram it was sluggish without a million updates and at least SP 1 and even then had its senior moments.
The issue us geeks need to use muscle memory
No it isn't. The issue is that us geeks do real work and have things called 'files' on the computer.
I'm sure Windows 8 is fine for using Facebook and playing online games.
Could, in a rhetorical question work in an environment that is more polished where applets, touch, as well as opening files work in a GUI? Windows 8 was not the best and implementation could have been very different. However I can open files just fine on a VM running 8.
For the record I use Windows 7 and CentOS with gnome 2. I am not ready for this change either, but I am open after seeing this. These kids are starting to enter the workforce and in a few short years start to influence purchasing decisions at our employers. I have a feeling it will come whether we like it or not.
I do not praise it.
However, it was a wake up call for me.
Here is what is nice about a tiny netbook and tablet with touch. PORTABILITY. It is like a cell phone but bigger and can do real work. Windows 7 and Gnome 2 are nice if you have lots of regular apps (not applets) with a dock/taskbar in a system of organization to launch things right?
Starting with win 7 I just type what I want and rarely use anything on the start menu. I occasionally do when I need a component or something. I use jumplists. If Metro apps can function on a taskbar and I could have a start menu with a mouse, but a start screen when I detach the keyboard I can live with that actually. My brain would resist the new look and difference and I would need to remind it of the benefits. Something a child does not have to worry about as they have more agile minds.
Windows 7 would be terrible and so would a heavy bulky laptop for her.
So as CPU's and GPU's get faster and SSD's are rapidly getting faster, more reliable, and cheaper we will see the power to multitask more in tinier packages. I think Windows 8 needs MASSIVE IMPROVEMENTS but it is an early look at the future. Apps are nice too in that you do not need +30 tabs opened in a browser when an app can do the same thing. They remind of the pc era in the early days of shareware where people installed applications for everything. Remember those?
A new sleek UI that still has features and is better implemented is doable and does have features for professionals too if done right if you get rid of the eww change. Many still can't handle the change away from office 2003 and are clinging to it for life.
Imagine going on a business trip where you carry a thin 13 inch hybrid in your carryon instead of a bulky laptop bag. It easily fits in your tray on the airplane, has +8 hours of battery life, and when you arrive in the rent a car GPS and maps navigator pop up with weather reports, etc. It has a taskbar and can run Office. It can do be doable and perhaps nicer than Windows 7 if done right.
I was going to say this update fixes this and puts the functionality including booting to desktop back in. Do not know about burning CD's.
What this tells mere weeks away from BUILD where Windows 9 will be demo'd is that MS is backtracking for desktop users.
I still use Windows7 as I am not ready to switch but at least desktop users are being acknowledged.
We tend to base our reality on those around us and as humans we associate in groups who share similiar beliefs (slashdot.org pro linux anti MS, geek stuff, etc) which alter our viewpoints. It doesn't mean that those who disagree do not exist.
When making Planet of the Apes those in the gorrilas, chimpanzees, and others ended sitting in groups during lunch. They were not told too. Human psychology with group idenitty played into this at a subconcious level. I find it very interesting. ... back to the viewpoint I am not a Metro Tile Lover AT ALL. Many on www.neowin.net love Metro and it is similiar to slashdot but is very pro MS. There is a strong 1/3 minority who hate Metro there too like slashdot but love other MS stuff give or take and fights in comment sections between the 2 groups pop up.
I agree the Windows 7 desktop and Gnome 2 are better for me and those who do real work with lots of apps everywhere. Not applets. However, the younger crowd is used to cell phones during brain development so using an app and having 1 or two applets at a time feels comfortable.
I also agree Windows 8 IS A DISASTER. It is not that Modern/Metro is bad to me. It was not implemented correctly and rushed to beat Apple. But that doesn't mean we should not welcome changes like booting to desktop back or hate all applets on the desktop if the desktop is actually returned and no closed door syndrome shit. After all we own Androids and iPhones and do not freak out each time we use them right?
The younger crowd likes portability and touch. My example of my niece is that. She had 0 problems and has used XP on her parents computer before. She was happy got Metro and her brain was able to learn and even feel comfortable with it immediately. This generation are now just entering the workforce while the baby boomers are out or will be in the next 10 years. We will go in upper management or start companies or just mingle with this new group but they will be buying computers and influence corporate decision making more and more.
Yes the rumors about mouse-first, voice-first, and touch-first were from neowin.net. Microsoft employees mentioned this. In 1 month we shall see at the BUILD conference if this is true. I use that site as well. Been accused of being a shill for Linux on that :-)
I get flamed on both sides but I do not like being closed mined and missing something. I was one of those who brushed off the web and refused to learn development on it as HTML was just that. It wasn't real programming etc. I regret that choice.
While I am keeping Windows 7 and CentOS for now and ignore ubuntu and Windows 8 it does not mean I am set and will turn into an XP luddite and not update for 12 years and then go in a rampant rage when forced too. Windows 9 and Linux mint maybe on my next computer in about a year to a year and a half from now.
I have extended family members. One daughter got a new Windows 8 tablet/ultrabook Lenovo hybrids for Christmas and loves it. She brings it out in the island in the kitchen to browse facebook, do homework with MS Word, etc. Her mom grabbed it for recipes, they used it for skype more relatives, her brother kept fighting to use it for things.
I mentioned how HORRIBLE ITS UI was and offered to put Windows 7 on. They looked at me like EWW that GUI is for old people that doesn't run applets.
Like the EEE it is super portable.
The issue us geeks need to use muscle memory to relearn something and we used to laugh at those who could not adopt to change. Now the joke is on us.
The millennials like their apps, tiny sizes, portability, long battery life, etc.
Windows 9 will be a refined balanced UI. Tile applets on a Windows 7 desktop if you plug in the keyboard and mouse (mouse-first UI) if rumors are true. MS nees an answer to iOS and Android with battery life, smooth graphics acceleration, and applets. It is NOT GOING AWAY.
Supposedly it boots directly to the desktop if you have a keyboard and mouse plugged in and it adds features from Windows 7 back like power buttons, jumplists, and even tile resizing.
But since I never jumped on the bandwaggon I suppose I do not care one bit. If I was forced with a laptop with Windows 8 only drivers then I would and would love this if I were stuck with Windows.
Newer Atoms and other cheap notebooks are not Windows 7 compatible and you would think they would be!!
Some string theorists claim that when a string bends in the 4th dimension it creates the effects of dark matter.
Not to sound like an idiot because I have no physics degree, but if it exists everywhere why isn't it on Earth or anywhere else? Surely in the last billion years since our solar system revolved around the galaxy once we would at least encounter some of it?
Most republicans favor $8.00 a gallon gas as anything less if we didn't export to people paying that would be evil socialism! We can't have that now can we as that would interfere with the free market.
That is why it is here. Think our gas would say $3.50 a gallon when they can sell it for double in China?
It means we do not have to pay $8.00/gallon for gas like other countries are willing to pay if we export.
We need to crack down on this!!!
Let's keep all this oil here and try to bring the freakin' price of gas back down to what it was pre-Katrina at least.
But I'm guessing the tree huggers behind the Obama admin, won't want to lower prices back. I think they want to keep them high to try to kill off cars in the US.
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l... yes the political rant on the end was a little much. But I am shocked the slashotters have not mentioned why there is a ban in the first place
The ban was created to lower gas prices from the 1970s oil crises. Oil goes for $7 - $9 a gallon in China and in Europe. I guess gas companies still are not making enough money from $1.24 a gallon a decade ago to $3.50 today.
If you want to see gas prices go to $7.00 a gallon exporting will cause it. Why would Shell or BP want to sell gas to Canadians and Americans for $3.50/gallon when they can sell it in China for $8.00/gallon?
So you price match or you can't get to work etc.
>> it will focus on giving developers "close-to-metal" GPU resource access and reducing CPU overhead.
Translation: ...its finally been gutted of a lot of heavy Microsoft crapware and is now just a thin wrapper over the GPU vendor's own driver.
I wish the rest of Windows would go that way too.
Much of the speed of Mantle over OpenGL and DirectX have to do with the CPU processing draws to the screen. If you have an older Phemon II but with a decent card (my own system) doing this in GPU benefits. DirectX 12 will look at cpu vs gpu functions and execute on either depending on which is faster.
Basically it is a bottleneck as the GPU sits there waiting for the cpu in many games and if hardware in the GPU can do these things it takes the load off the CPU so the GPU can thread efficiently. In other words it is like blocking threads for regular systems programmers.
DirectX11 was back ported to Vista.
The reason DirectX 10/11 was not backported to XP was not because of mean old bad microsoft but rather WinXP is such an obsolete archaic OS that is fundamentally different.
The driver model of NT (pre Vista) does not include WDDM (Windows Device Display Manager) which includes composition and GPU based threading and schedule control etc. One of the strongest reasons to ditch Xorg in the Unix world is because of features like this that Wayland promises to integrate because it is fundamentally different.
Also explains why XP is stuck at IE 8 due to no hardware acceleration ... in addition to no kernel level sandboxing either for security.
Microsoft can't play the old 1990's game where we buy which ever version and hang out at CompUSA at 12am to get it anymore. MS found out the shocking way developers resistant to technology in IE 6 last decade. MBA's look at marketshare now so if I were a betting man my guess would be DirectX 12 will be ported. If not then it will be suicide as XBoxONE won't use it and developers want to target both for maximum profit generation which is why DirectX 9 stayed for so long too.
Windows 9 will be very similar to Windows 7 as there is no reason for radical changes other than perhaps power management. It wont be that much of hassle as MS easily backported many IE 10/11 features to Windows 7 in just a month or two after the Windows 8 releases. Windows 7 at least has a WDDM unlike XP.
I will refuse to work with one who doesn't. I do not want my ass in a corporate lawsuit when data gets breached on public record when HR does a background thank you very much!
Hospitals yes they have to use XP. It is cheaper to pay the $250,000 a year plus client contracts than to pay the FDA $5,000,000 to recertify all their apps, MRIs, equipment, computers, and updated programs again for something that still works fine. They will keep using XP for another decade at least.
But with HIPPA they are required by law to be supported and secured so yes they have a contract.
They have contracts for extended support and kiosks and POS use XP embedded and are not connected to the internet. Any IT department who still has XP on is incompetent at this stage.
Or simply pay your bills or do not take out more than you can pay in case of a job loss.
In all fairness it is private but open to the public like a McDonalds. Yes someone has every right to take back something that doesn't belong to you. If you owe money the car is not YOURS.
They check the VIN number before towing due to lawsuits and the bank checks the license plates during processing work when they register the licensing fees back to them or the used car dealership it ends up on.
It sounds evil and messed up and scary if you are in a bad situation with someone trying to take what you think is yours and a tool to get a job. But sadly if repos didn't happen you wouldn't be able to use your car you have now. You would be driving a used beater for a much more expensive price as it would be cash only.
Yes a joke made off those who saw Windows 7 aero and thought VISTA and clinged to XP for life! ... compounded by those who say it really is just Vista etc.
I can tell you from my obsolete laptop with 2 gigs of ram and a 4500 rpm hd that there is a WORLD of difference between Vista and 7. It is a 1.7 ghz dual core AMD turion. Vista will just peg the hell out of the disk for many minutes on end. The waiting circle will pop up and the gui becomes unresponsive when processing something, in Windows 7 the graphics WDDM is multithreaded so the I have the cursor back when it is doing something. Network shares randomly vanish under Vista which is still not fixed. Network and HD access is still slower. Instant search indexing doesn't re-index constantly under 7.
These and higher ram requirements are the issues on this older system off the back of my head. I am sure on core2extreme or an icore5 with 4 gigs of ram it could be tolerated in a non corporate environment without network shares. Windows 7 has finer touches and responsiveness and less bugs. It is more pronounced on 2 gigs of ram and lower end machines with the impact.
Many such machines as yours made in 2005 to 2006 have XP.
Those compared to the older 2.0 ghz 512 megs of ram Pentium IV's are much quicker and will last several years longer than its older cousins.
It is pegged at 30% because of overheating protection. Replace the fan and the problem will go away. You are slowly ruining your electronics if they get that hot and it will eventually die
I got news for you, computers depreciate faster than cars. One can buy a good used computer with Win7 or Win8 on it for $300 or less.
BTW, the average er capita income in American is about $50,000.00 per year. That is quite a bit more than $10/hr(21,800/yr). So, the group you listed is not the average either.
Average != median. There is tremendous income inequality in America. IN statistics Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Koch Brothers, etc would be considered outlines. I do not want this thread to become political as that is not my point. I would like to point out for ever millionaire there are many many more who do make $10/hr waiting tables, interning, stocking shelves at Walmart, etc. Infact they make up to 25% of all income earners from what I read and 50% of all new jobs created! Low wage jobs are growing.
My point is for the bottom 25% that is a sad reality and since XP users make up 15 to 20% of users in the USA according to statistics it makes perfect sense. $300 is A TON OF MONEY for these guys and means no food and no rent out on the street.
Be thankful for what you have. I used to make a lot more in the good days and as late as last year in the great recession accepted a job for $13/hr and moved back in with my parents. A gap on a resume is a career suicide and was forced to take it :-(
Recovering now slowly but when you have asshole HR who ignores skillsets and focuses on employment gaps and job titles for x amounts of time you have people's value go down really fast and unemployable comes next. Many become the new Walmart stockers.